Oscars 2023 Trivia
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59 free Oscars 2023 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 95th Academy Awards, held on March 12, 2023, were the night the multiverse won. Everything Everywhere All at Once took seven Oscars including Best Picture, Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian Best Actress, Ke Huy Quan completed a comeback four decades after Temple of Doom, and Brendan Fraser wept his way through a Best Actor speech. Naatu Naatu became the first Indian song to win, and the red carpet was, for the first time since 1960, not red. This quiz covers the whole ceremony: every major winner, the records and firsts, the nominees who went home empty-handed, the performances, the honorary awards, the Andrea Riseborough campaign controversy, the ratings, and the small moments Oscar obsessives remember. Questions run from easy warm-ups to details only awards-season diehards will know. Every answer was checked against the Academy's own results as recorded on Wikipedia and the winners' own pages, so you can use it for a movie night, a pub quiz round or a pre-Oscars party without worrying about a wrong answer.
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Q 01Which 2023 Best Picture nominee starred Cate Blanchett as a celebrated conductor accused of misconduct?
Tár
Tár follows the fictional Berlin maestro Lydia Tár; the film went into Oscar night with six nominations and left without a single win.
Q 02Which Hollywood venue hosted the 2023 Oscars ceremony?
Dolby Theatre
The Dolby Theatre opened in 2001 as the Kodak Theatre; it took its present name in 2012, after Eastman Kodak's bankruptcy ended the naming-rights deal.
Q 03Which comedian hosted the 2023 Oscars, his third time in the job?
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel had hosted in 2017 and 2018; his first show ended in chaos when the wrong film was announced as Best Picture.
Q 04Which film was mistakenly announced as Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars, the 2023 host's first as emcee?
La La Land
La La Land's producers were already giving speeches when the mistake was caught: the presenters had been handed a duplicate Best Actress envelope, and Moonlight was the real winner.
Q 05Which film won Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars?
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once was first written as a Jackie Chan vehicle; directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert then rewrote the lead as a woman.
Q 06The 2023 Best Picture winner's seven Oscars were the most since which 2013 space thriller?
Gravity
Gravity won seven Oscars in 2014, including Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón, yet lost Best Picture to 12 Years a Slave.
Q 07At the 2023 Oscars, David Byrne performed wearing which prop from the Best Picture winner?
Hot dog fingers
Hot dog fingers nodded to one of the film's stranger universes; his duet partner was actor Stephanie Hsu, who took the part Mitski sang on the film's soundtrack.
Q 08The 2023 Best Picture winner was the first film of which genre to win the top prize?
Science fiction
Science fiction had never won Best Picture: voters passed over Star Wars for Annie Hall and E.T. for Gandhi before the multiverse comedy broke through.
Q 09Which 1976 film also won three acting Oscars, as the 2023 Best Picture winner did?
Network
Network won Best Actor, Actress and Supporting Actress in 1977, the first posthumously for Peter Finch, yet lost Best Picture to Rocky.
Q 10Who won Best Actor at the 2023 Oscars for playing a reclusive, 600-pound English teacher?
Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser won Best Actor as Charlie, a role director Darren Aronofsky spent years trying to cast, saying he had considered 'every single movie star on the planet'.
Q 11The 2023 Best Actor winner became the first person from which country to win the category?
Canada
Canada got its first Best Actor winner: born in Indianapolis to Canadian parents, he holds dual citizenship, and Aronofsky cast him after seeing a trailer for an obscure Brazilian film.
Q 12For the first time since 1935, the 2023 Best Actor field of five shared what distinction?
None had been nominated before
None had been nominated before, so a first-time winner was guaranteed; the 1935 field had only three names, and Clark Gable won for It Happened One Night.
Q 13Which 2023 Oscar nominee played a dying civil servant in the drama Living?
Bill Nighy
Q 21Who won Best Supporting Actress at the 2023 Oscars for playing IRS auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdre?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis, winning on her first nomination, thanked 'all of the people who have supported the genre movies' she had made, telling them 'we just won an Oscar together'.
Q 22The 2023 Best Supporting Actress winner's mother, Janet Leigh, earned her only Oscar nomination for which Hitchcock thriller?
Psycho
Psycho brought Janet Leigh her only nomination and The Defiant Ones brought one for her then-husband; neither won, so their daughter's 2023 Oscar was a family first.
Q 23Before the Daniels won in 2023, which duo last shared the Best Director Oscar?
Coen brothers
Bill Nighy earned his first nomination in a script by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, who moved Kurosawa's Japanese classic Ikiru to post-war London and was nominated for the screenplay himself.
Q 14Who won Best Actress at the 2023 Oscars for playing a laundromat owner facing a tax audit?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh won for a part the Daniels first wrote for Jackie Chan, then reworked with a wife and mother as the hero of the story.
Q 15Who was the first woman of color to win Best Actress, before the 2023 winner?
Halle Berry
Halle Berry won Best Actress in 2002 for Monster's Ball, the first woman of color to do so, and she was among the presenters of the lead acting awards in 2023.
Q 16Ana de Armas earned a 2023 Best Actress nomination for Blonde, playing which figure?
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe's life was fictionalised in Netflix's Blonde, which was named Worst Picture at the Razzies two days before de Armas competed for the Oscar.
Q 17Whose surprise 2023 Best Actress nod for To Leslie triggered an Academy review of campaigning?
Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Riseborough's nomination for To Leslie followed no conventional campaign; the film's director and his wife rallied celebrities to host screenings and post online, and the Academy reviewed but kept the nomination.
Q 18Who won Best Supporting Actor at the 2023 Oscars after nearly two decades away from acting?
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan quit acting for lack of roles and worked behind the camera until the success of Crazy Rich Asians in 2018 persuaded him to audition again.
Q 19The 2023 Best Supporting Actor winner became the first actor born in which country to win an Oscar?
Vietnam
Vietnam was his birthplace: his family fled a few years after the war, and he spent about a year in a Hong Kong refugee camp before reaching Los Angeles.
Q 20The 2023 Best Supporting Actor winner played Short Round as a child in which 1984 film?
Temple of Doom
Temple of Doom cast him at 12 after he went along to an open casting call where his younger brother was auditioning; he then played Data in The Goonies.
The Coen brothers shared it for No Country for Old Men in 2008; the only earlier pair, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, won for West Side Story although Robbins was fired mid-shoot.
Q 24Before their feature films, the Daniels directed the music video for which 2013 hit?
Turn Down for What
Turn Down for What, by DJ Snake and Lil Jon, got a video starring Daniel Kwan himself, and it earned the Daniels a Grammy nomination.
Q 25Which studio distributed the 2023 Best Picture winner, then its highest-grossing film?
A24
A24 opened the film in just ten theaters, and it went on to gross about $143 million worldwide, overtaking Hereditary as the studio's biggest hit to that point.
Q 26Which film won Best International Feature at the 2023 Oscars?
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front took 16 years to reach the screen: co-writer Lesley Paterson, a champion triathlete, kept the book rights alive with her race winnings.
Q 27Which film lost all nine 2023 Oscar nominations?
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin lost all nine, two months after winning three Golden Globes, including best comedy or musical film.
Q 28Which composer won Best Original Score in 2023 for Netflix's First World War film?
Volker Bertelmann
Volker Bertelmann, who records as Hauschka and made his name placing objects between piano strings to alter the sound, won for the war film's score, beating John Williams.
Q 29John Williams' 2023 Best Original Score nomination, at age 90, was for which film?
The Fabelmans
The Fabelmans came as Williams, 90, was planning to retire from film scoring; before the ceremony he changed his mind, saying he had '10 more years to go'.
Q 30Judd Hirsch's 2023 supporting nomination came a record 42 years after his first, for which 1980 film?
Ordinary People
Ordinary People brought his first nomination; the 42-year gap to his second was the longest between two acting nominations, and he lost both times, in 1981 to co-star Timothy Hutton.